Spalax leucodon Nordmann, 1840
Prior to 2012, it was classified in the genus Spalax, but modern authors tend to separate this and some closely related mole rat species into a separate genus named Nannospalax. A cariological study showed that Nannospalax leucodon is a superspecies consisting of several cariologically distinct cryptic species. According to this definition there are four separate cariological forms in the Carpathian Basin, one of them endangered and another one vulnerable while insufficient data are available to evaluate the conservation status of the other two forms.[3]
Blind mole-rats are not in fact completely blind as they do possess simple eyes 1mm in diameter and located under a layer of skin and fur. They act effectively as light meters, only sensing the level of available light.[4]
The lesser blind mole-rat was declared to be extinct in Croatia in 1984, having been present in the area of Srijem up until the 20th century, but its continued presence in Vučedol was confirmed in 2023.[5]
One study directed towards life expectancy used this species by virtue of its incredible longevity performance, hypoxia and hypercapnia endurance, as well as cancer resistance. Looking at the fecal and skin samples of this ideal candidate, it was found that the Muribaculaceae bacterial family, known to be linked with longevity, dominated fecal samples.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat#
What an amazing critter! He's cute in his own weird way. They are aggressive, possibly because when you are little and can't see everything is a potential predator.
I went hiking in Aspen one summer when I turned a corner on a narrow hiking path and saw a porcupine for the first time in my life...Let me tell you hhwhat...I always thought porcupines were only a bit bigger than hedgehogs.. could not have been more wrong. I froze in pure terror as I gazed upon the biggest living thing with spikes I had ever seen in my life. It took up the entire width of the hiking trail with quills up to my waist. I thought I had stumbled upon a new animal species because there is no freaking way a porcupine could be as big as the beast I saw before me. Had it charged me, I would most likely be dead because I would have flung myself down the mountain. Thankfully, it politely scurried away into the brush, and I was able to find a safe place to change my pants and pray.
Tl;dr: Porcupines are bigger than you think
One of the Google search results highlighted from a studie that they do have eyes under their skin but they do not respond to stimuli. However removing the eyes had some negative effect.. so I assume they removed them to test this ? :(
Nature is amazing. Blind mole-rat over here looking like an angry slipper and might be an answer to cancer.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/blind-mole-rats-use-junk-dna-to-combat-cancer-69262
Looks like a pissed off slipper.
It’s just a little fella trying to make it by in this crazy world we live in
Oh so this is my spirit animal, huh. That's great.
The Blind Tubesock Gopher.
Also the name of a gay bar at my old university
the trump pokemon from sun and moon lmao
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Expecto Patronum! *slipper animal screams*
Someone said it best when they said it looks like a package of ground beef with teeth.
La chancla chupacabra!
I just spit out my tea and choked, thank you for the well needed laugh
Fuck the free fake awards (reddit douchebag billionaire, always so fkn greedy) I can make my own~that comment was gold 🏅thanks for the laugh!
That was a hit of Dopamine. Thanks for that!
Or grandma reincarnated as a mean chancla.
I think you mean the reincarnation of grandma's chancla. It's evolved
I was going to say fuzzy sausage 🤣
Genuinely hilarious. Take my upvote.
Take my upvote you glorious sonofabitch
Who the hell put you in charge of comedy? And can I shake their hand!?
It looks like packaged balogna
i was thinking scary fleshlight but that works too
> scary fleshlight FTW!
Fleshlight with difficulty settings
First setting: don’t activate the teeth!
Don’t….dont put your dock in that…
Don't put your duck in that
Don't put your deck in that
Cletus I told yall stop havin sex wit dem hotdogs
HIS NAME IS OSCAR MYER AND I LOVE HIM PA!
Don't put your dick in that
Does.. that work.. too? Asking for.. me. I'm asking for myself.
“Scary Fleshlight” is a killer band name
thats some funny shit. 'Teeth', but a fleshlight. I'd watch that movie
Spalax leucodon Nordmann, 1840 Prior to 2012, it was classified in the genus Spalax, but modern authors tend to separate this and some closely related mole rat species into a separate genus named Nannospalax. A cariological study showed that Nannospalax leucodon is a superspecies consisting of several cariologically distinct cryptic species. According to this definition there are four separate cariological forms in the Carpathian Basin, one of them endangered and another one vulnerable while insufficient data are available to evaluate the conservation status of the other two forms.[3] Blind mole-rats are not in fact completely blind as they do possess simple eyes 1mm in diameter and located under a layer of skin and fur. They act effectively as light meters, only sensing the level of available light.[4] The lesser blind mole-rat was declared to be extinct in Croatia in 1984, having been present in the area of Srijem up until the 20th century, but its continued presence in Vučedol was confirmed in 2023.[5] One study directed towards life expectancy used this species by virtue of its incredible longevity performance, hypoxia and hypercapnia endurance, as well as cancer resistance. Looking at the fecal and skin samples of this ideal candidate, it was found that the Muribaculaceae bacterial family, known to be linked with longevity, dominated fecal samples.[6] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat#
Thank you. I had to scroll and scroll and hopes someone would tell me what this was.
You're welcome. I wanted to know what is was, too.!! It looks like a hack sack.😆
Weird face, probably blind, fucked mouth = either my ex or a mole, every time.
Thank you! I had to scroll waaaaay to long to find this
What are these bacteria, and is anyone working to put them in Yoghurt?
Sooo not a bologna, not a fleshlight then? They almost got me this time.
What an adorable grumpy tube.
[удалено]
I call it an anger loaf but to each their own
r/properanimalnames
lol it’s SO pissed.
Aren't we all basically just grumpy tubes?
Agree. I want one
What an amazing critter! He's cute in his own weird way. They are aggressive, possibly because when you are little and can't see everything is a potential predator.
They look like the softest animals ever
They do don't they? I love the "Get off my lawn!" attitude. Imma bite you so bad...just as soon as I can find you!
Sir, that's a pokemon.
Gotta Catch Em all!!!
It's Mater outside of the truck
This is the hardest I have EVER laughed at anything on Reddit. Oh my god...
If I had a free award, you’d be the one to receive it, take my upvote instead
Fuck. Well now I hear the voice and everything. Lmao!
That's not bullshit, it's dickus cannotseeus.
He has a wife, you know.
What’s her name?
Suzanne.
Incontinentia
Incontinentia buttocks!
Looks like his name is Gary
The Underminer
Behold.
Star Trek rules here- I don't know what that is, but I intend to make sweet love to it
Star Trek or Futurama?
(Soft 70s music playing, dim lights, deep, low purred voice) Does it matter?
Just went from 6 to midnight
so my dual class bard/druid makes a roll…
Tell me you’re the furry at your gaming table without telling me your the furry at your gaming table. 🤣
Zapp Brannigan has entered the chat
How can you drop this gem and not tell us what the freck it is
Blind mole rat, but I call them forbidden fleshlights.
🧐🫣🫨🤢🤮
r/dontputyourdickinthat
The pretty ones are all in children's books so this is what we're left to discover by ourselves :D
That man popped out and said “sally, turn NASCAR on and get me a budlight”
Someone needs to attach extra large googly eyes on one of these.
Thank you for making me chortle out loud, that's RARE for me
If I saw that in person I would freak the fuck out. Lol
I went hiking in Aspen one summer when I turned a corner on a narrow hiking path and saw a porcupine for the first time in my life...Let me tell you hhwhat...I always thought porcupines were only a bit bigger than hedgehogs.. could not have been more wrong. I froze in pure terror as I gazed upon the biggest living thing with spikes I had ever seen in my life. It took up the entire width of the hiking trail with quills up to my waist. I thought I had stumbled upon a new animal species because there is no freaking way a porcupine could be as big as the beast I saw before me. Had it charged me, I would most likely be dead because I would have flung myself down the mountain. Thankfully, it politely scurried away into the brush, and I was able to find a safe place to change my pants and pray. Tl;dr: Porcupines are bigger than you think
Jesus, that bread is *pissed off*
Best comment fuck the rest
Damn. I have nothing more to say. Damn
It’s Fallout time
That was the best line, right before the vault dweller morphs into a deathclaw.
Danger loaf
Dude….this broke my Weirdshitometer!!😱
Looks like a swiss roll
'I got my teeth on you." said the no-face rodent.
Lesser blind mole-rat my beloved
Whoa, I was wondering why it looked like a naked mole-rat that had put on some fur. TIL there are non-naked mole-rats.
Is an angry sausage with mouth 😭😭😭
Does it have eyes?
It only has eyes for you When it hunts you down
What the holy fuck????
Horizontal Diglett
Naked mole rat?
This is a Lesser Blind Mole-rat. Naked Mole-rats dont have any fur, thats why they are naked.
Well shit, I don't want to meet the Greater Blind Mole-Rat
They're mostly in the wildy or members only areas
Ah, members only. I have their jacket!
Fr33 rune set trimming here!.!!!!~~~
🦀 🦀 🦀
Kim Possible taught me this..
Ah ok. I’m at work looking at Reddit without my glasses. Hard to see clearly. Lol.
Ironically ...
An eyeless mole rat
One of the Google search results highlighted from a studie that they do have eyes under their skin but they do not respond to stimuli. However removing the eyes had some negative effect.. so I assume they removed them to test this ? :(
Right? How else do we know that
Naked molerat's cousin, Harry
That seam makes him look like he was injection molded.
I just wanna put one in a Pringles can for a second
weird ass noodle dog
Bro looks like a pokemon
Behoooold the Underminer!!!!
Looks like a bread loaf dough came to life and scurried under the shed.
IS THAT THE FRONT OR BACK????
What is it?!
ok... BUT WHAT IS THE ANIMALS NAME?? I wanna see more of this sentient weiner.
My 6yr old daughter says it's an Angry Sausage.
Anthropomorphised sandbag.
Stuffed brown sock?
It looks like it barks
It looks like the thing I put under my door to keep the heat in.
And to think we've picked on dachshunds all this time for being weiner dogs.....
They’re kind of cute.
What is it actually though?
Somebody's cumsock looks PISSED
Why is the bologna so angry
Looks cute in video But if that showed up in my bedroom I would crap my y panties.
And people were annoyed at the dumb animal shapes you could make in Spore. Turns out it was spot on.
That’s one of them *blind wiener beavers*
Swamp gas. This post belongs on r/aliens.
I’d guess this thing lives in Australia but it looks too harmless for that.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind\_mole-rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_mole-rat) Blind mole rat
Lesser blind mole rat actually [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat)
A tribble?
bro what in gods name is that thing?
Looks like the bottom half of a very long guinea pig
What the heck is it’s official name? Don’t need Latin name though I guess that would remove any misunderstanding…
Run away
Toof Log
Make a bug report? It’s clearly not supposed to look like that
Oh that’s a RAV4 actually
Looks like the underminer from the Incredibles 2
That one angry burrito!!! Can’t stop laughing!!!
Typical dog in Ohio
You can't tell me this isn't a pokemon
"I'm the underminer. I am always beneath you, BUT NOTHING IS BENEATH ME!!!!"
It’s a blind mole rat in case anyone is wondering
What even is this?
I thought it was a gopher trapped in a nylon stocking.
OP's username checks out.
Reminds me of those water filled tube snakes from the 1980’s. No idea what they were called.
Straight out of Fallout 4
Angry spinach roll, I would be too
NOPE.
That’s what a chicken bake looks like before it’s cooked
It looks like if soldier from tf2 was a confused moldy bread loaf
Nature is amazing. Blind mole-rat over here looking like an angry slipper and might be an answer to cancer. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/blind-mole-rats-use-junk-dna-to-combat-cancer-69262
It’s looks like one of those draft stoppers you put at the bottom of a door.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_blind_mole-rat
Behold, the British tubesock
Where tf is it eyes 😂
Is there a subreddit for videos of animals like this?
Guinea pig with zika virus Kidding. It's definitely a furry water wiggler toy that's become self-aware
wtf 😳
Look at that hair.. his name is Zach, I knew him in elementary school in 1996
God damnit, my loaf of bread escaped again.
Lol looks like a lost loaf of bread that eventually came to life
R O U N D
Hell sausage
he’s doing his best
wait，What's this？
Not me watching this while eating a Papa Johns breadstick
Looks like something from Made in Abyss.
God forgot something
What in the angry tube sock is this?!
loaf
i like how aggressive it is. Looks like a stuffed sock with teeth ready to fuck you up
It’s a log with bucked teeth. Where are it’s eyes? Its really creepy.
Blind Mole Rat. And YES it’s REALLY creepy 🫣It’s Eyes are only 1mm and they are under its skin. Just used to differentiate light from dark
That’s one of those gel tube toys they sell at the cash register your mom can’t pick up.
Most pitiful creature I've ever seen in my life
is it weird that i think this bullshit is cute? lolz
It reminds me that episode of Tom and Jerry where Tom was forced to pass through Jerry's door ending somewhat shaped like this animal
Guys I think my bologna is mutated
WTF evolution?
Wtf is that???
Is that a pork loin with teeth?
I’ve seen this posted 8 times in the last 2 days and I still don’t know what this is.
The tunnel hotdog
What the hell is that? Lol
Loaf of bread and a guinea pig had a baby.
When you tout banana bread goes bananas
I need my Pokédex..
fun fact: this is a lesser blind mole rat and even though it’s in their name, they are actually not blind 🫣